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Tuesday, 22 September 2026
13 facts about tears
13 facts about tears
Multipurpose liquid
Associated with emotions, tears are a product of lacrimal glands, found in the eyes of most terrestrial vertebrates. Although their primary function i ...

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Mushrooms
Mushrooms are of great importance in the development of civilization, due to their key role in making bread and wine.
Many species of fungi are used in food production: bread, spirits, cheeses. Some of them, like Penic ...
Mushrooms
Fungi (Fungi) form next to animals (Animalia) and plants (Plantae) a distinct, great realm of eukaryotic living organisms.
They are found in all climatic zones, mainly on land, but also in waters, both salty and fresh. The ...
Nicotine
Research on the therapeutic effects of nicotine is a very young field of knowledge because so far the focus has been on its negative impact on the body.
Psychiatrists have long wondered why almost 90 percent of patients with schizophrenia and depression ...
Tears
Basal tears production drops with age.
Especially common for women, it is a result of hormonal changes after menopause.
Silver
Silver does not react with clean air and water.
However, it becomes dull upon contact with ozone, hydrogen sulfide, and air polluted with sulfur compounds. Silver halides slowly decompose when exposed to light.
NASA
The first Crew Dragon launch took place on May 30th, 2020.
Crew Dragon Endeavour was launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket, and docked at the ISS carrying Doug Hurle ...
Ganymede
The moon's mantle is surrounded by layers of ice and salty liquid water.
These layers alternate. The surface of the moon consists of hard ice several kilometers thick.
Ganymede
The Moon is the only one in the Solar System that has a dipole magnetic field capable of creating a magnetosphere.
Brain
Thanks to the word patterns stored in memory, a person is able to read the text in which the letters have been mixed.
It is enough for the first and last letters of a word to be in the correct place.
Aurora
The aurora is an inseparable element of the polar regions.
It occurs in high latitudes, mainly beyond the Arctic Circle. It also happens, however, that under favorable conditions, it can be observed around the 50th parallel.